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A study of factors affecting child-centered teaching in elementary grades

Creator:: Hatch, Lynda Sylvia
Abstract:: Some elementary teachers want to be more child-centered in their teaching. They are trying to consider the needs of the students before the coverage of curriculum. Much of the inspiration for this educational approach has come from the British primary schools. The purpose of this study was to see if...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Lee Jenkins Dr. Jo Ann Brewer Dr. Jake Nice Dr. Perry Brown Dr. John Buckhouse for their patience

A model for identifying evaluation procedures that have a positive influence on teacher attitude

Creator:: Jones, Sheridan Davis
Abstract:: Teachers and administrators spend many hours of work reviewing the State of Oregon Guidelines and drafting district guidelines in an attempt to make the process of evaluation positive and productive. Most districts agree the primary purpose of evaluation should be for the improvement of instruction. The amended state law, ORS...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: method (Spearman/Brown). 4. Select the school districts based on how well their evaluation process

A study of dropout propensity of selected community college students

Creator:: Gum, Sanford
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine if there were common factors influencing student decisions to terminate course work at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. The following six null hypotheses were tested: 1. There will be no significant difference in responses among those enrolled in transfer...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Mateo, particularly Dr. Allan Brown, Philip Morse, Herbert Warne, Edith Hopkins, and Jean Page; The

The role of the city manager in policy making : a study of differences in the conception of actual and perception of ideal policy making roles of the city manager by elected mayors and appointed managers in small California council-manager municipalities

Creator:: Feldman, Steven, 1954-
Abstract:: In recent years, the role of the City Manager in municipal policy making has been the focus of considerable attention and debate in both the academic and local government arenas. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in views of elected mayors and appointed managers with regard...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Fostering upward mobility of Mexican American adults through a critical incident

Creator:: Matthews, Mildred Shuman
Abstract:: This research design was based upon the mutual relevance between the fields of education and anthropology to cause cognitive cultural awareness by the teachers of adults as well as visibility within the Mexican American ethnic group. Specifically the purpose of this study was twofold:. (1) to determine whether the adult...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A study of the relationship between a cloze and a word opposite reading vocabulary placement instrument designed for adults

Creator:: Orr, Evelyn Bonnie Fairburn
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of placing adults in reading materials based on scores from a word-opposite test. The population was randomly selected from students attending developmental education classes at three Oregon community colleges. The Word Opposite Reading Placement Instrument (WOPI) was derived from a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: lies in better means of measurement and evaluation. (Brown, p. 154, 1970) Many of the adults entering

An analysis of the effectiveness of a learner-centered teaching system compared to that of a conventional teaching of basic electricity to university students

Creator:: Ruiter, William Wallace, 1925-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a learner-centered teaching system and that of a conventional teaching of basic electricity to university students. For this study 65 students enrolled in basic electricity at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona were used, distributed in two fall semester...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: class- room teaching by R. 0. Brown involving high school mathematics proved that the experimental

Physiques of female competitive rowers

Creator:: Hammer, Donalyn Louise
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: showed no change in subcutaneous fat. An investigation by Brown and Wilmore (6) studied the effects of

Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

Creator:: Beyer, Elmira K.
Abstract:: A five year longitudinal study was begun in 1976 to find a solution to the problem of early primary children who fail in school and then adopt the failure syndrome. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in Oregon which had distinctly different socio-economic populations. The tests used for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The development of a performance-based adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community College : a case study

Creator:: Johnson, Jerome Alfred
Abstract:: The purpose of this case study was to describe the development of an adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community College, Specifically, the purposes of this study are: (1) the creation of an instructional approach utilizing performance objectives as a means of satisfying the minimum adult high school...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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A study of factors affecting child-centered teaching in elementary grades

A model for identifying evaluation procedures that have a positive influence on teacher attitude

A study of dropout propensity of selected community college students

The role of the city manager in policy making : a study of differences in the conception of actual and perception of ideal policy making roles of the city manager by elected mayors and appointed managers in small California council-manager municipalities

Fostering upward mobility of Mexican American adults through a critical incident

A study of the relationship between a cloze and a word opposite reading vocabulary placement instrument designed for adults

An analysis of the effectiveness of a learner-centered teaching system compared to that of a conventional teaching of basic electricity to university students

Physiques of female competitive rowers

Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

The development of a performance-based adult high school diploma program at Linn Benton Community College : a case study

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